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buildstherobots ([personal profile] buildstherobots) wrote in [community profile] mayfield_rpg2012-08-17 03:23 pm
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the water's rising, but i know the course

[phone, completely public]

[Dist has spent the past hour trying to find the proper pronunciation for "ubezhishche," but he'd be damned if he screwed up such an important call by stumbling over a foreign word. A little editing would have to do.]

I'm only going to read this once. Get a pencil and pay attention.

GRIGORI SADYKOV

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

In the type of event that Project U. is created for -- God forbid such a thing should happen -- there would be no power source capable of sustaining it indefinitely. Project U requires, by design, a greater source of energy than we have access to.

It would be, therefore, inherently unstable. It could not be maintained at the level specified in the original directive. I predict that over time, it shall become more voracious in its consumption of energy as external conditions become less forgiving.

I advise that we bring the project to a pause to reanalyze our design, if not a complete stop. Conditions within it CANNOT LAST according to the original directive. Eventually, disrepair, malfunctions, and ultimately ruin are, I fear, the inevitable consequences of Project U.

I cannot stress further the risk presented here. Attached are my findings and calculations. The math does not add up: the entire project is in danger as it stands.

Grigori Sadykov
Scientific Architect of Project U.


The emblem at the top of the document reads CCCP, if that means anything to anyone. Project U has a longer name that I can't define or pronounce; someone proficient in Earth languages might do better there.

[Dist pauses, thinking for a few moments. It was a shame he'd misplaced the order calling for the man's execution; that would have been nice to read too.]

The date of this document is beyond recognition, but it's clear that Mayfield is what the project eventually became. Those of you who fell into the little town inside the carnival witnessed it falling apart. I've gotten dubious confirmation that the same is starting to happen to the town we all inhabit.

They knew about it from the start. I can't find my copy of the official document but Grigori Sadykov's execution was called for soon after he sent this letter, for crimes against the state and their "Glorious Leader." I don't know what's going to happen to us, but I know that if any of you have any brilliant plans, and I'm sure plenty of you do, now is the time to start pursuing them.

Their hold is breaking. Whoever it was I spoke to, the one who confirmed it, spoke through one of the residents here, overriding the body's holder; this is someone who is outside the system, or who can move inside it more freely than we can. I'm inclined to believe them.

Get on it.
spitefulvitae: (Hmmph lovely)

[personal profile] spitefulvitae 2012-08-17 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Natalie has jumped right on scribbling this stuff down. She might not have normally. But it was Dist, and Dist likely knew what he was going on about.

It's not long after he demands that everyone "get on it" that she sends her own commentary back along the line.]


...we are so fucked, aren't we?
allwehad: (staring into your soul)

[phone]

[personal profile] allwehad 2012-08-17 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scrambling to write all of that down!]

They can take over our bodies..? Great.

Yeah. Now would be the time to do something before this place becomes another Westport.
spitefulvitae: (Generally Unimpressed)

[personal profile] spitefulvitae 2012-08-17 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
If that miserable dissolving carnival is any indication of what's waiting for us... I don't like what's waiting for us.

[She exhales sharply.]

And "CCCP" is short for... or the acronym for the Communist... Socialist... fuck, it's for the Soviet Union. Why are there so many Cs in that, again?
splitthebaby: (who ships roa/nero these days)

phone

[personal profile] splitthebaby 2012-08-17 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
If you wish to know, CCCP is how the Russians would say "USSR" or "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics".

The great enemy, as it were.
Edited 2012-08-17 23:52 (UTC)
balzams: (Uneasy ● Bad feeling)

[personal profile] balzams 2012-08-17 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately he couldn't find a paper and pen in time to write it all down but his hand would have been shaking too much anyway]

CCCP... are you sure?

W-where did you get that?
splitthebaby: (sup ciel)

Re: phone

[personal profile] splitthebaby 2012-08-17 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The very same one.
birthmarked: (Pretty girl is suffering)

[personal profile] birthmarked 2012-08-17 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Esther scribbled down as much of it as she could. Yeah they're pretty screwed.]

... Thank you for the information.
splitthebaby: (my face when)

Re: phone

[personal profile] splitthebaby 2012-08-18 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have any proof that all the research data wasn't stolen by America and implemented by them?
splitthebaby: (my face when)

Re: phone

[personal profile] splitthebaby 2012-08-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, the history is there. The undercover 'spy' war between America's CIA and the Russian's KGB was rather legendary. Perhaps it's best to educate one's self before making any decisions.
balzams: (Uneasy ● Bad feeling)

[personal profile] balzams 2012-08-18 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well... um...

CCCP stands for Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, I'm sure it's more well known as the USSR or Soviet Union in Mayfield...

W-when you say another town... was it like that carnival? Are you sure that's happening here?
splitthebaby: (defaulting it up)

Re: phone

[personal profile] splitthebaby 2012-08-18 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
If you refuse to educate yourself about relevant history, you're doomed to repeating the same mistakes others have.

Or missing cultural references that would be very important, such as knowing what the CCCP is.
splitthebaby: (who ships roa/nero these days)

Re: phone

[personal profile] splitthebaby 2012-08-18 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, why not. History is my favorite subject, after all.
captainofthe10th: (helmet)

[personal profile] captainofthe10th 2012-08-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that is it, then.

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